Tim Roach

Top result on Google search for Jimmy Savile 🤔

Reading Seth Rogen’s Yearbook and there’s this page where he describes managing to avoid befriending two toxic individuals.

The resulting reports, especially the teacher report with individual pupil targets, are rich in detailed feedback!

Four stars on @letterboxd.social

Two weeks ago, the play-off in the fifth tier of English football drew over 50,000.

I love moderating! I know it’s an imperfect (and hugely expensive) system, but the STA training is very detailed. If only all Y6 teachers could access it (although the materials are usually available online somewhere). It’s a privilege to visit schools and read so much children’s writing.

We’re halfway through June, which means there’s only two weeks left of KS2 writing moderators (me included) going into schools and reading humdrum retellings of that animated short film Alma,searching in vain for any dialogue at all, let alone some that conveys character or advances the action.

A lad I went to school with was killed in Afghanistan. Pete Hegseth? I See A Fuckwit.

Not a bad spot for a school trip. 🔭

Manchester Museum named European Museum of the Year Museum director says 138-year-old institution has worked to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’ It contains Egyptian mummies and is the only place outside Panama where tiny variable harlequin toads can be found. And now, the 138-year-old Manchester Museum has been named European Museum of the Year. The institution won one of the most prestigious museum prizes in the world with judges praising its approach to addressing its complex past and its extensive work with communities. Continue reading...

Manchester Museum named European Museum of the Year

Can’t believe how quick you are with this!

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🚨 Full analysis of all the 2025 SATs papers 👇🏼

Apologising in advance bc I liked some bits that others hated. And I hated bits that others will defend 👀

MATHS: tinyurl.com/2025maths

GPS: tinyurl.com/2025-GPS

READING: tinyurl.com/2025-reading

#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #Year6 #SATs

SATs week virtually guarantees amazing weather every year!

The Guardian view on teachers’ pay: ministers must fund an increase | Editorial Editorial: Schools are tough workplaces, and the government should endorse the case for higher pay

“The gap between public and private sector pay has grown over the past decade. Dismayingly, the former is now lower in real terms than in 2010, with experienced teachers facing some of the steepest drops.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If only it were as simple as no more excluded children It’s never just about the one pupil who is made to leave school

In today’s paper: my column is on the campaign against exclusions and what I think it gets right (but more importantly, what I think it gets wrong):

No one outside the media has ever called the BBC ‘Auntie’.

RIP Val Kilmer

This. That’s all they need to do to make SATs work for everyone.

Thanks Bob! 🙏

Dear DfE, please can every local authority have an @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social to coordinate primary writing CPD and moderation. Thanks. #TDaPEManchester

It’s great to be back in a room full of teachers on a Saturday morning, especially when @andrewpercivaled.bsky.social is talking retrieval practice at #TDaPEManchester

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Severance finale. Nothing else like it.

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Ticket sales for #TDaPEManchester end tomorrow night. The best time to buy a ticket was 3 months ago, the second best time is now. 👇

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What a bunch of contemptible people.

Incredible piece, John.

Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him | Marina Hyde Whether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factchecking, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

“We meet a shadowy Zuckerberg aide who supposedly games his boss’s own algorithm so his posts have mega-engagement. Mark’s senior staff all let him win at Catan.”

These people are the worst of us.

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Check out Thomas Turgoose’s Instagram to see Mark Ruffalo joining in with the classic Grimsby Town chant: “We piss on your fish.”
#GTFC

Ditto, for Sturgill Simpson last week.

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Beta Band tickets secured 🔒